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  • The Sicilian Inheritance: A Novel
    Jo Piazza
    Hardcover: 04/02/2024
     
    From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the ...
  • Table for Two: Fictions
    Amor Towles
    Hardcover: 04/02/2024
     
    From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly ...
  • The Half Life of Valery K
    Natasha Pulley
    Paperback: 03/19/2024
     
    From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set in a ...
  • The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
    Hala Alyan
    Paperback: 03/12/2024
     
    From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the ...
  • Only the Beautiful
    Susan Meissner
    Paperback: 03/05/2024
     
    A heartrending story about a young mother's fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune that tear ...
  • Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel
    Xochitl Gonzalez
    Hardcover: 03/05/2024
     
    New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy ...
  • The World and All That It Holds: A Novel
    Aleksandar Hemon
    Paperback: 01/30/2024
     
    The World and All That It Holds―in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory―...

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